{"id":16046,"date":"2021-06-22T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T08:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16046"},"modified":"2021-06-22T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T08:32:49","slug":"sothebys-will-accept-cryptocurrency-as-payment-for-a-rare-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16046","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s Will Accept Cryptocurrency as Payment for a Rare Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sotheby&#8217;s has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14598\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14598\">cryptocurrencies <\/a>will be accepted as payment for a rare pear-shaped diamond. This is stated in the statement of the auction house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; June 22, 2021 \u2013 Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Crypto per carat! We have just announced that the cryptocurrency will be accepted as payment for the exclusive D Flawless pear-shaped diamond weighing 101.38 carats &#8211; an important moment in the evolution of the market,&#8221; &#8211; said in a statement the auction house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rare pear-shaped diamond is expected to cost up to $ 15 million, with an auction scheduled for next month on July 9 in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pear-shaped diamond, dubbed The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13595\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13595\">Key <\/a>10138, is one of ten diamonds weighing more than 100 carats ever put up for auction, only two of which were pear-shaped, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May, Sotheby&#8217;s sold Banksy&#8217;s work for $ 12.9 million, the first work of physical art sold by an auction house to be bought for cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cryptocurrency had an unstable year with explosive growth and severe declines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Auction house Sotheby\u2019s announced that cryptocurrencies will be accepted as payment for a rare pear-shaped diamond <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eACFQGwHLn\">https:\/\/t.co\/eACFQGwHLn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DwMUDCzRV0\">pic.twitter.com\/DwMUDCzRV0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1407216784160133121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=4691\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4691\">J. Lo Performs in a Mask with Diamonds!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby&#8217;s has announced that cryptocurrencies will be accepted as payment for a rare pear-shaped diamond. This is stated in the statement of the auction house. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; June 22, 2021 \u2013 Economy &#8220;Crypto per carat! We have just announced that the cryptocurrency will be accepted as payment for the exclusive D Flawless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6005,275,6150,6188,7268,2399],"class_list":["post-16046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-auctions","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-diamonds","tag-hong-kong","tag-sothebys","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16048,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}